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Request to mount a HDD at Login

I have an 80GB storage HDD that I put in this HP Compaq DC7700 CMT prior to installing Leap on that PCI card PATA HDD.
The past week or so I get a 'popup' prior to login asking for root PWD to mount it. BTW, I do Auto Login if that makes a difference.
Why? and can I disable that?

Side note: in retrospect, that is probably where I should have installed Leap 15.

Re: Request to mount a HDD at Login

I am also a little bit confused by your descr[ption.

But when you want a file system mounted at boot (and when the disk is always connected to the system, that is probably the best to do) then you put an entry in /etc/fstab (you can do that using YaST > System > Partitioner, but of course take care: DO NOT CREATE A NEW FILE SYSTEM (DO NOT "FORMAT"), only enter the fields for mounting.

Another thing is that you do story telling like: command xxx shows this:....
It is much, much better to include the command with the copy/paste you do. If it is there, why not show it?

Re: Request to mount a HDD at Login

I was just curious as to why that one HDD is NOT mounted at start up and all the other drives are!.
I can do the 'etc/fstab/(using YaST > System > Partitioner), but it isn't that hard to cancel the mount request at start up.

Last edited by Bill_L; 21-Dec-2018 at 18:20.
Reason: more fumble fingers!

Re: Request to mount a HDD at Login

Originally Posted by Bill_L

I was just curious as to why that one HDD is NOT mounted at start up and all the other drives are!.
I can do the 'etc/fstab/(using YaST > System > Partitioner), but it isn't that hard to cancel the mount request at start up.

When you mean "at boot" with "at start up": file systems are mounted at boot when they are configured for it in /etc/fstab. Thus, when not in /etc/fstab, no mount at boot.

Re: Request to mount a HDD at Login

Originally Posted by hcvv

When you mean "at boot" with "at start up": file systems are mounted at boot when they are configured for it in /etc/fstab. Thus, when not in /etc/fstab, no mount at boot.

Sorry to be so dense, and sorry to keep extending this thread.
And I guess I mean 'at boot' because that is where the popup raises it's head, while the screen is all black, AFTER the P.O.S.T and BEFORE the DM displays the desktop screen, and before any graphics are displayed.
I posted what is in /etc/fstab/ above. It only shows the PATA HHD that Leap is installed on.
I have two other drives in the machine, The Windows 10 HDD, and that 80GB Storage drive, both SATA.

SO? if drives are mounted from /etc/fstab/ 'at boot';
Why doesn't the Windows 10 HDD show in /etc/fstab/?